Buy local, in cash.
Every card transaction benefits the big credit card companies, all of which are complicit. Local businesses are some of the ones hit hardest from all of this and will need your support.
Avoid chains owned by local folks, too. Those big chains still benefit even if it’s your neighbor that owns the local McDonalds.
Support things the government is trying to destroy, like your local library, and your local stores that sell LGBT positive merchandise.
Make friends with your neighbors. Grow things in your yard that they need and trade for stuff you need. Many folks that seem in agreement with all of this really aren’t if you know them. We are stronger together.
In regards to home gardens, Not everyone needs everything, but everyone needs something. If you can get chickens or some kind of egg laying fowl, then that’s a possibility as well. Guineas are fighters and do well in areas without a lot of brush or low trees.
Bike as much as you can. Avoid gas as much as you can. Ride the bus or a train. Don’t fly anywhere. Install solar panels if you are able. Capture rain water and use it for your garden.
But used as much as possible, especially clothes.
Replace your single use materials in your home with reusable ones. Rags instead of paper towels, glass containers instead of plastic ones, metal straws, and a water pick instead of floss.
Make things. Anything. Don’t monetize your hobbies, share them instead. Trade homemade goods and art for other stuff.
Avoid the dollar as much as possible, and use cash when you can’t.
ryan_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Where possible, avoid buying from companies that are complicit.
I’ve used apps like this to help make decisions:
apps.apple.com/us/app/no-thanks-app/id6476206516
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unless you buy from local creators/farmers, EVERYONE is complicit.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Simply existing is destroying the planet, so, like many things, you practice harm reduction. If I need to buy hardware or tools, and there’s no local shop, I go to Lowe’s. Not because Lowe’s is awesome, it’s a shitty corporation. But because Home Depot donates money to groups that practice gay conversion therapy, which is worse than anything I know of that Lowe’s does.
Pretty much every decision you make can be about harm reduction on some level. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of better.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My problem is that I never even HEARD of the Home Depot thing.
Here’s one you may or may not know about. Nestle actually engages in and uses literal slave labor to grow coco beans in other countries.
So you think “well, how hard is it really to just buy hersheys chocolate instead? And buy your cookies from local bakeries?”
Except no. Nestle is more than just chocolate. It’s like hundreds of brands. I’m constantly checking packaging now to see if their logo is on products. It owns DiGorno pizza. It owns Hot Pockets. It owns water bottles. It’s like half the grocery store. And that’s just ONE COMPANY!!!
My issue isn’t accepting that you’re right. My issue is keeping track of it all. I’ve hated Nestle since 2012. I didn’t realize the scope of their brands until 2020. I think they even own a pet food company that makes dog food and cat food. Now granted I don’t have pets, so I’d not have delt with that, but still.
I only have so many brain cells left to rot before I’m a full on dementia ridden crazy person who thinks it’s still the Nixon years, despite the fact I was born in 1983.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
But your local farmers likely voted for the more genocidal candidate. Does that count as being complicit?
Also, their seeds likely have to rebought every year from some corporation, due to patents BS, meaning you are still indirectly supporting evil.
Ah fuck, we’re all gonna end up in The Bad Place.